It has also been discovered that those working like bookworms in their labs feel inter-personal rejection. Dr Roy F. Baumeister of Case Western Reserve University (USA) has recently researched that inter-personal rejection can dramatically reduce their capacity for intelligent thought. Such a rejection can diminish their intellectual abilities to a considerable extent.

Dr John M. Twenge researched at San Diego State University in California that socially rejected scholars take greater risks. Such scientists go on making unhealthy choices — even postponing exams. Such social victims stick to short-term pleasures.

A socially excluded intellectual gets engaged in suppressing his emotional distress. He finds it difficult to concentrate, is incapable of channelling his brain energy in controlled thinking. This not only makes him feel miserable but the lack of his positive contribution also harms the entire nation.

Just try this experiment! When you gossip, don’t you feel light and relaxed? Doesn’t your brain function well after a gossip session? But if you just gossip and don’t work after that, you become lethargic. Gossiping proves useful only when you work well with concentration after that.

Theodor Laurence, world-famous Psychosymbolist, said: "Artists, writers, poets — indeed, all truly creative people down the ages — have known that somewhere within them lay a vast reservoir of untapped power and knowledge." This source could really be activated only when you get a jump-start with fresh mental vigour.

Why then check your child from enjoying free play? Let him play as he wills. His interaction with his fellow children will give a boost to his mental powers. The earlier you tune him to have a positive bent of mind, the brighter will be his future!